§ (1) Any joint board constituted under the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1907, for the provision of a hospital for the treatment of consumptives, may, with the consent of the Local Government Board, enter into and carry into effect an agreement for the transfer of the hospital and the property held or used in connection therewith to the council of any county for the purposes of Part II. of the principal Act, and the Local Government Board may, after due inquiry, make under their seal such orders as may be necessary to enable the agreement to be carried into effect.
§ (2) An Order of the Local Government Board under this Section may amongst other things provide for the dissolution of the joint board, and the repeal or amendment of any Provisional Order relating to that Board, and may apportion and adjust any property, income, debts, liabilities, and expenses of any area or authority affected by the transfer, and shall contain such consequential provisions with respect to the settlement of differences, payment of sums and otherwise as to the Local Government Board may seem necessary.
1148§ (3) For the purpose of paying any sum in pursuance of an Order under this Section a local authority may borrow in the case of a county council as for the purposes of Section four of the principal Act, and in the case of the council of any county district as for the purposes of the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1907.
§ (4) The provisions of any Order made under this Section shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.
§ Amendment made: In Sub-section (1) after the word "county" ["to the council of any county for the purposes of"], insert the words "or to the councils of any two or more counties jointly."—[Mr. Birrell.]